## ON IMPROVING THE LIVELIHOOD OF SCHOLARS

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## MEMO TO THE FUEL DEPARTMENT OF PETROGUBKOMMUNY
Petrograd

To Comrade Rudakov, Head of the Fuel Department of Petrokommuny

Copy: To the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet.

September 10, 1921

I request that you supply firewood to the commission for improving the livelihood of scholars.

If there are any disagreements regarding the quantity to be allocated to them, or any objections whatsoever, I ask you to cross out these two words to me.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

*2392*

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## MEMO TO N. P. GORBUNOV.
5/XI [1921]

Comrade Gorbunov!

Should I not appoint the commission:¹

1) Pokrovsky
2) Khalatov
3) Novitsky, with a report on Monday evening in the Small [Council of] People's Commissars, on Tuesday [in the] Large [Council of] People's Commissars? Get in touch with them and let me know.

Lenin.

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¹ The Commission for Improving the Livelihood of Scholars, composed of M. N. Pokrovsky, Y. K. Gindin, P. I. Novitsky, A. B. Khalatov, N. A. Semashko, and V. P. Volgin, was appointed by the Council of People's Commissars on November 10, 1921. It was tasked with discussing the question of awarding bonuses to the most outstanding and necessary scholars and scientific workers in the Republic.

* Printed from a typewritten copy. —Ed.

** In the hand of N. I. Gorbunov here inserted: "(with Gindin's replacement)". —Ed.